O TEORIJAMA, POLITIKAMA I PRAKSAMA BORBE PROTIV SIROMAŠTVA ILI SIROMAŠNIH? SOCIOLOŠKA ANALIZA
ON THEORIES, POLICIES AND PRACTICES OF THE FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY. OR THE POOR? SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: The text will discuss scientific theories, policies and practices in the fight against poverty, and the key question we will deal with is whether discourses, social strategies and actions aimed at reducing material poverty work for or against the poor. There is no doubt that poverty is a ubiquitous reality (and) in the modern world, that it is gaining surprising proportions even in developed societies, and that attempts to deal with this social challenge are largely unsuccessful. People who live the experience of poverty face a series of troubles, starting from material deprivation, through discrimination, to the inability to express their human capacities, which, as critical sociologists teach us, is one of the most serious crimes. Furthermore, dominant scientific approaches and expert initiatives, as well as normative solutions and practices, as a rule, attribute responsibility for being on the social margin to the Poor. His voice has been silenced in scientific research, and the application of social policy strategies and measures that should help end poverty is limited to those who conform to the formally and informally normed mold of charity. In other words, open and symbolic violence is carried out against the Poor. Paradoxically, it was not recorded as such, even though it happened in a time marked by a generally accepted discourse on political correctness and the rule of human rights.

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